Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the latter bought the Sun, then a morning paper. According to legend, General Stewart went to Europe to direct railway construction for the Allied armies, leaving Cromie with power-of-attorney to run the paper. From that status, Cromie emerged as owner. Nearly his first act was to absorb the conservative News-Advertiser, only morning competitor. Because he was without newspaper knowledge, Publisher Cromie was unbound by tradition or habit. He has made the paper as he went along, made mistakes, done surprising things. Personable, affable...
...mention of the prim old-fashioned girls of 1930 will be regarded as funny. In 1980, however, musical comedies will still be full of jokes that have been doing service for years; songs will not have improved; heroines will be coy and leading men pompous. These suggestions spectators will absorb from De Sylva, Brown & Henderson's mechanically amusing musi-comedy. A theme which has been useful to H. G. Wells and Jules Verne they have executed in the fantasies of a tired vaudeville booking-agent. Just Imagine is much too long, and in spite of all that Marjorie White...
Recent examinations at the University of California have been employed to prove that the adult mind is superior to the youthful intellect in the acquisition of book learning. Although the results of these tests seem to demonstrate that mature persons absorb knowledge more efficiently, still it should be kept in mind that this condition is not entirely, or perhaps even partially, due to differences in actual ability...
Dumping. Flatly denying that Soviet Russia is dumping or has dumped anything, Stalin declared: "For many years our home market will absorb all we can manufacture and a lot more. . . . In two years we shall be the world's largest grain producer. . . . But all talk about selling below cost, employing 'forced labor' et cetera, is sheer nonsense...
There is one difficulty in the idea. It puts a premium upon speed. A good man will be anxious to prove his worth by graduating as rapidly as possible. It is impossible to absorb a large amount of reading in a short space of time, and reading is a necessary complement to a thorough study of many subjects. It would be very difficult, for example, to graduate from Harvard in one year in the field of History. One of the greatest advantages of the four year system is the time it allows for careful, digestive reading. But this objection merely...